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muy “bien”
Do you prefer Chevy Camaros or Ford Mustangs, Ralph Lauren or Faconnable, Rolex or Omega? As we walk up and down the aisle of our favorite department stores, we have so many choices among seemingly...
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Interpretation
A friend of mine recently challenged me to learn a new song on guitar. It was an instrumental duo that I’ve been familiar with through the years – Slack Key Soquel Rag by the Doobie Brothers to be...
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Epiphany
The other day a friend asked me how I got so interested in wine. It made me think back to the many times that were pivotal to my path in coming to understand and appreciate wine. I remember those days...
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Mother Nature
The 2014 wine grape harvest has been one of the most concentrated, and earliest in recent history. There always seem to be unexpected challenges as the grapes reach the final days before harvest. As...
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Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving. Actually, just the word thanksgiving speaks volumes…as if it were a paragraph all on its own. There are so may memories contained in this word…so many feelings of family and friends, so...
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It’s a Wrap!
So, here we are again, the frantic race to the end of the year, so much to do with so little time in which to do it! Wherever you will be celebrating the holidays, I am sure that if you are reading...
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Palatable
When it comes to your wine palate, start with what you know…with the textures and aromas in the wines that catch your attention! I have learned to know what I like in the structure of Chardonnays,...
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May I have the envelope please….
We find ourselves in the middle of Awards Season and whether or not you have seen all of the nominated movies you, like me are still inundated with the shows; Golden Globes, SAG Awards, Critics Choice,...
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Look both ways
Let me set the scene: Your party of six friends have just been seated at a fine eatery, the waiter is handing out the menus and you are handed the wine list. There is light conversation around the...
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The Eyes Have It
As you walk up and down the aisle of your favorite wine merchant you might just hear a whole lot of screaming…by that I mean the labels on each bottle of wine are screaming to try to get your...
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Taint Misbehavin’
There are some things you just have no control over…a tidal wave, earthquake, flood, drought, and this past weekend was a grim reminder of the power of fire. A fast moving wildfire that started in...
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Helpless
It is ironic that right after my post on smoke taint another wildfire erupted and this time a little too close for comfort. We had been following the news of the Valley Fire in Lake county over the...
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Cause and Effect
Four years of extreme weather conditions have impacted the wine industry. Dry, warm conditions, along with freak rain and hail storms and of course the drought have all taken their toll. Just taking a...
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Thanksgiving
It is hard to turn off the ‘noise’ in a world that is literally exploding all around us. We live in a time of instant news, twitter, facebook, blogs and news feeds constantly bombarding us with the...
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Dare….if you will
Leave it to one of the best story tellers of our time, Francis Ford Coppola to bring an intriguing new experience to Sonoma County with his Virginia Dare winery. When I first saw the name go up on the...
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Drone on
Every time I see a drone it makes me think of the sinister U-2 single jet engine spy plane era during the cold war, those sleek long winged planes with cameras mounted on the under belly so as to take...
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Re-Directing
It has been awhile since my last blog…we have had a few things on our plate! Kirsten and I have been discussing the possibility of relocating to our home on the vineyard up in the Alexander Valley for...
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Anticipation
Every growing season has its ups and downs. Each season leaves its mark and no two are ever the same. Every single day in the vineyard adds to the DNA that will help define the characteristics of the...
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Earth, Wind, & Fire
My prior post touched upon how no two days in the life of a vineyard are the same and how one really has no control of Mother Nature. Now this harvest season has finally ended for us and I must say...
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“The Sky Is Falling”
There is an old folk tale “Henny Penny” which you might remember as “Chicken Little”. This is the tale of a chicken who proclaims that ‘the sky is falling’ and thus the world must be coming to an end....
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